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  • noun chemistry, obsolete A rejected name for dubnium.

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Named for Frédéric Joliot-Curie, with -ium.

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  • One of the proposed names for element 105 was joliotium, after Fréderic Joliot-Curie, which I think is cooler, personally.

    Periodic groups Matthew Guerrieri 2009

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  • (symbol Jl) former IUPAC-proposed name for element 105, now called dubnium; after physicist Frédéric Joliot-Curie

    July 10, 2008